Cristina Bucsa and Wakana Sonobe will square off in the qualifications of the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 1:00 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Cristina Bucsa who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Cristina Bucsa is the pick to win this match.
Cristina Bucsa -> 1.28
Wakana Sonobe -> 3.4
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Prediction and head to head Cristina Bucsa vs. Wakana Sonobe
There is no head to head record between Cristina Bucsa and Wakana Sonobe since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Cristina Bucsa
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34-31 | 24-20 | 2-6 | 2-1 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 24-29 | 14-18 | 8-7 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-30 | 17-15 | 7-8 | 8-3 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 49-31 | 17-8 | 15-12 | 10-6 | 5-4 | 2-1 |
| 2021 | 31-27 | 9-7 | 9-11 | 6-6 | 5-2 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 101, Bucsa reached the qualifications after defeating Kamilla Rakhimova 5-7 7-6(4) 6-3.
In the qualifications against Rakhimova, Cristina recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 7-64 6-3). During the match, Bucsa scored 116 points vs Rakhimova’s 112. Bucsa was pretty aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Talking about the service games, Bucsa fired 2 aces and she committed only 8 double faults. Cristina Bucsa lost the serve 9 times and she saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Bucsa put 64% of her first serves in, winning 51% (37/73) of the points behind her 1st serve and 46% (19/41) on the 2nd serve. Cristina broke Rakhimova 9 times after converting 50% of her break points (9/18).
Bucsa has good match record in the last 10 years having won 59% of her matches (297-210). 2-3 on hard in 2025. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this event, Bucsa has an overall 102-67 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Cristina has a composed 3-4 win-loss record in 2025, 2-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Abu Dhabi
Wakana Sonobe
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20-15 | 18-11 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 17-10 | 5-3 | 12-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 7-4 | 1-1 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 13-6 | 4-1 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 834, Wakana reached the qualifications after defeating Hailey Baptiste 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, Wakana had a good straight sets win against Baptiste (6-3 6-1). During the match Sonobe scored 52 points vs Baptiste’s 30. Wakana was very aggressive to blast 15 winners.
About the serving games, Sonobe scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Wakana Sonobe was very effective on serve to win 75% (15/20) of her 1st serve and 61% (14/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. The Japanese broke Baptiste 5 times after converting 83% of her break points (5/6).
Sonobe has a composed 1-0 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Abu Dhabi
Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2024. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Bucsa | Sonobe |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 34 | 16 |
| Pts | 116-112 | 52-30 |
| Total Points | 228 | 82 |
| Winners | 37 | 15 |
| %Winners | 32% | 29% |
Both Bucsa and Sonobe played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Cristina Bucsa dropped 1 set while Wakana Sonobe hasn’t dropped a set so far. Bucsa has played 1 set more than Sonobe (3 vs 2). Therefore, Bucsa played 18 games more than Sonobe. Bucsa scored 37 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese fired 15 winners (29%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Bucsa | Sonobe |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 1 |
| 1st in | 73/114 | 20/43 |
| %1st in | 64% | 47% |
| 1st pts | 37/73 | 15/20 |
| %1st pts | 51% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 19/41 | 14/23 |
| %2nd pts | 46% | 61% |
Bucsa managed to score 2 aces . Sonobe struck 1 ace . Bucsa won 51% points behind her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 46% of the points. On the other side, Sonobe won 75% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 61% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Bucsa | Sonobe |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 9 | 5 |
| Converted | 9/18 | 5/6 |
| % Converted | 50% | 83% |
| Conceded | 16 | 2 |
| Saved | 7 | 1 |
| % Saved | 44% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 9 | 1 |
Cristina broke her opponent 9 times with a 50% conversion rate. Cristina surrendered her serve 9 times and she saved 44% of the break points that she conceded. The Japanese broke her opponent 5 times with a 83% conversion rate. Wakana conceded her serve once and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.
| Bucsa | |||
| Q1 Rakhimova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 5-7 7-64 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 34 | 34 | |
| pts | 116-112 | 116-112 | |
| Total points | 228 | 228 | |
| Winners | 37 | 37 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 8 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 73/114 | 73/114 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 37/73 | 37/73 | |
| % 1st pts | 51% | 51% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/41 | 19/41 | |
| % 2nd pts | 46% | 46% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 9 | 9 | |
| Converted | 9/18 | 9/18 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 16 | 16 | |
| Saved | 7/16 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 44% | 44% | |
| Times Broken | 9 | 9 | |
| Sonobe | |||
| Q1 Baptiste |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 52-30 | 52-30 | |
| Total points | 82 | 82 | |
| Winners | 15 | 15 | |
| %Winners | 29% | 29% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 20/43 | 20/43 | |
| % 1st in | 47% | 47% | |
| 1st pts | 15/20 | 15/20 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/23 | 14/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/6 | 5/6 | |
| Converted % | 83% | 83% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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